As an adult, he worked as an estimator, measuring and pricing materials used in constructing the gigantic platforms that house oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
A long-lashed vixen in delicate pink-striped harem pants, fanned by buglike slaves, reclines on a gigantic upholstered platform shaped like a tiered wedding cake.
Diller and Scofidio's video also proposed carving out a section of the main plaza and turning it into a gigantic elevator platform that could ascend from the concourse level, bringing crowds up from the subway and the garages.
So it's safe to say this gigantic video platform is still substantially Under Construction, as creators evolve best practices for success on Facebook.
For better or worse, she also has a gigantic celebrity platform.
Most New Yorkers think of Times Square as a barren consumerist wasteland, but one incredible thing does happen there: by turning creators loose on the world's most famous intersection, Times Square Arts turns it into a gigantic public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts.
The UK government has announced a little extra tax relief aimed at encouraging what the chancellor termed 'micro-entrepreneurs' in yesterday's budget — albeit the other beneficiaries here are likely to be gigantic tech platforms like Airbnb if Brits take up the invitation to rent out their spare rooms for a little tax-free extra income.
Indeed, barely had Obama returned from Asia when China took its most openly aggressive move -- towing a gigantic oil drilling platform well inside Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone on grounds that it overlapped with the EEZ of the contested but Chinese-controlled Paracel Islands.
Five layers down, laid on the bare earth, was a platform of gigantic timbers, instantly identifiable from their shape and workmanship as belonging to some long-lost ship.
What's more, they were going in the miraculous vehicle that has replaced the landing craft of yore: the Landing Craft Air Cushion, or lcac (pronounced "el-kack").The lcac is essentially a gigantic everglades boat, a platform eighty-eight feet long and forty-four feet wide that rides on an inflatable rubber skirt, with two twelve-foot fans on the back for propulsion.
